Two years with Echo and I'm torn. EchoShip gives way more visibility than my old hometown broker ever did and when Midwest lanes pay it moves freight quicker, but after twenty years on the road I still want a dispatcher who knows my quirks and will fight for a load - that personal touch is hit-or-miss here, so some weeks pay better, other weeks feel like I'm just another number.
Clyde Rosenbaum
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89 reviews · average 2.8
I've used Hub Group for three years. Last December my trailer slid off an Iowa ramp in a snow squall and Hub Connect alerted dispatch - within an hour they'd arranged a local relief truck and sorted the paperwork so I didn't lose the load or my pay, and that one fix sold me on sticking with them.
Bottom line: Schneider’s load-tracking tech is both a lifesaver and a headache. After twenty years hauling Midwest routes I’ll take the ETAs and lane visibility when they’re accurate - those times save hours - but too often the app posts phantom pickups or stale statuses and I’m left parked at a dock while dispatch chases a ghost load.
After twenty years hauling freight across the Midwest, I moved most of my lanes from scattershot local brokers to WWEX Group. Their single live-tracking link - one portal instead of three logins - stopped customers from calling me every hour and it was night-and-day for getting paid faster.
Twenty years behind the wheel in the Midwest, I don't get impressed easily - DSV's live pallet-level scans pushed to my phone and the plant's system cut an hour off my wait and stopped the usual 'where's my paperwork' scramble. For time-sensitive automotive drops that kind of real-time visibility is worth the five stars.
When the first load I tried to grab vanished because their verification portal rejected my MC number, I missed a paid run and burned a $350 deadhead to reposition. After twenty years on the road I shouldn't be chasing support emails for three days while uploads fail and get nothing but automated ‘try again later’ replies - getting started cost me time and money and left me frustrated.
The live tracking and ETA are the one thing I actually like about the mobile app. After 20 years driving around the Midwest, I still end up tapping refresh and phoning dispatch when notes won’t save or the app times out in rural spots - handy visibility, frustrating day-to-day.
...it gives solid ETA nudges and route tweaks, but when the app loses GPS in the sticks my delivery logging becomes guesswork and I end up double-checking paperwork. Day-to-day it's useful - just wish the check-in was one tap and that it cached properly so I don't fight dead zones every other load.